Check out Class of 2018 Journalism Alum Brian Moreno’s award-winning piece for In-Depth Reporting at Brooklyn College’s Brooklyn News Service: Residents, students and visitors of the Lower Manhattan neighborhood where terror struck on Tuesday carried on with their lives, though some are still shaken up. On Thursday cyclists continued to ride their bicycles on the reopened bike lane, runners maintained their training for the upcoming New York City Marathon and the streets of Chambers and Greenwich were filled with students heading to their classes as the neighborhood is a learning hub for the Borough of Manhattan Community College, Stuyvesant High School, P.S. 234 Independence School, PS 150 Tribeca Learning Center, The Park Pre-School and P.S/I.S. 89, all with police officers patrolling the area. In spite of the terrorist attack, life in New York though alerted, remained the same. Sayfullo Saipov, a New Jersey truck driver who immigrated from Uzbekistan, allegedly committed the terrorist attack by ramming a Home Depot rental truck down a bike lane, killing eight people and injuring 12 others. The fallen victims include five Argentinians and a mother from Belgium, whose respective flags are planted in shrine across the community college in respect of the deceased. Continue Reading at the Brooklyn News...

The pain was bearable, but Al Jefferson still had tears in his eyes. One night after he injured his knee after a routine block, Jefferson sat inside a doctor’s office; his season was over and he wondered if his career was too. It was February 8, 2009, when Jefferson, then a member of the Timberwolves, swatted a dunk attempt by Sean Marks, the current general manager of the Nets. Jefferson landed awkwardly on his right knee, hopped nine times on his left foot, and collapsed to the hardwood. “What happened was, I went up and blocked a shot, I blocked it on the backboard and threw my body off so I came down wrong,” Jefferson told Hoops Rumors in February during a Pacers shootaround in Brooklyn. “I heard [my ACL] pop, as soon as I hit the ground. I was like ‘Oh, s**t!’” Jefferson said he wanted to return to the game, but with 27 seconds left, it wasn’t worth risking further injury. In reality, Jefferson’s injury was as serious as it gets. Continue Reading from former KCC Journalism Student Mark Suleymanov at...

Check out Class of 2018 Journalism Alum Brian Moreno’s award-winning piece for In-Depth Reporting at Brooklyn College’s Brooklyn News Service: Residents, students and visitors of the Lower Manhattan neighborhood where terror struck on Tuesday carried on with their lives, though some are still shaken up. On Thursday cyclists continued to ride their bicycles on the reopened bike lane, runners maintained their training for...

The pain was bearable, but Al Jefferson still had tears in his eyes. One night after he injured his knee after a routine block, Jefferson sat inside a doctor’s office; his season was over and he wondered if his career was too. It was February 8, 2009, when Jefferson, then a member of the Timberwolves, swatted a dunk attempt by Sean Marks, the current general manager of the Nets. Jefferson landed awkwardly on his right knee, hopped...

With his deep, resonant voice and articulate way of speaking, Dr. Eben Wood is a captivating storyteller. Fittingly, stories are something Dr. Wood has a lot of. A published author, Dr. Wood is infectiously passionate about language, writing and literature. An avid reader, he enjoys just about any genre and a variety of subjects and is knowledgeable about a great deal including history, psychology and philosophy. His office is...

Kingsborough faculty were given the opportunity to showcase their work from this semester at the annual faculty forum on Thursday, November 30 as departments from Business, Art, English, Journalism, Communications, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Political Science, and Behavioral Sciences delivered presentations that showcased their academic and professional research, which included their upcoming books, student experiments and...

During school hours, Vincent Cuccia plays the role of Speech and Business Communications professor proficiently. After papers are graded, Cuccia takes the role of co-owner of company Planet Pepper. Planet Pepper provides hip and butt pads for drag queens, cross-dressers, or anyone who wants killer curves. As a New Yorker, Cuccia strongly believes in diversity and stresses the importance of different shapes of men and women....

Costumes, characters and action- all elements of KBCC’s Cosplay Club. Often overlooked because not many students know about what they do, but more importantly because of the misconceptions that come from the term “cosplay.” Simply a way for people to connect with their favorite fictional characters, cosplay is the act of creating costumes and dressing up. The Cosplay Club is far from the average roleplaying...